Quotes About Ownership

…to own only a little talent…was an awful, plaguing thing….being only a little bit special meant you expected too much, most of the time.

You are ultimately responsible for your life and no one else.

Things are as they should be at this moment. When you accept that, you become responsible for everything you have and are. You then hold the power to change your future!

Success is personal ownership of the dream, and responsibility for its desired outcome.

Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame. —Erica Jong

The consequence of this reality was that in virtually every major battle of the Civil War, Confederate soldiers who did not own slaves were fighting against a proportion of Union Army soldiers who had not been asked to give theirs up.

I found cause to wonder upon what ground the English accuse Americans of corrupting the language by introducing slang words. I think I heard more and more different kinds of slang during my few weeks' stay in London than in my whole "tenderloin" life in New York. But I suppose the English feel that the language is theirs, and that they may do with it as they please without at the same time allowing that privilege to others.

The acquisition of a book signalled not just the potential acquisition of knowledge but also something like the property rights to a piece of ground: the knowledge became a visitable place.

I think about when I used to dress that way, not in that dress, obviously, but in that flesh. I will never do it again. I have learned all kinds of lessons from dressing that way, great lessons, terrible lessons, boring lessons, all of them, the big one being no matter how much you own yourself and your body and your mind, there are men who will always try to seek power over your body, even if it is just with their eyes, although often it is with their words and sometimes with their hands.

I own these words. I own these ideas. Here is my book.

There are plenty of reasons why I write. This is just one of them. The sense that I want to own something, own my work, own my creativity, own my name. It is perhaps not the purest reason, not truest of heart, for there is some ego attached to it. But it is real.

I belong to my beloved, and my beloved is mine.

In regards to The Haunting, people compared it to the old movie, which is unfair. We didn't have the rights to the movie. I couldn't duplicate a single thing because that would have been legal infringement.

When things worked, they were theirs; when they failed, they were his.

To my husband, Harold, I leave the Lower Bayou Motel. You've spent so many nights there with other women that I felt you should call the place home. It's been operating in the red for the last eight years, owes back taxes since 1986, and is covered with deadly asbestos. Nothing but the best for you, dear.

I reckon that blaming people fixes nothing. You're the only person who is going to sort you out. No-one else really can - or really cares, enough. That's what Nepalis know - better than anyone. That's our Western disease. Don't take responsibility. Take on a lawyer!

I believe it's time that women truly owned their superpowers and used their beauty and strength to change the world around them.

Although most of the finest early illumination is to be found in liturgical manuscripts, some secular texts were also illuminated. Their number was to increase with increasing individual ownership of books.

Employees producing mediocre returns for owners should expect their pay to reflect this shortfall

It was like having your teenager sell a spin in your Ferrari for a dollar. The more rides he sells, the more money he makes, until he wrecks your Ferrari.

That's the magic of books. They're never quite the same for any two people. When you read one, you automatically make it your own.

If I was mad, it was in this, that I had believed such a possession would protect me from the assassin. That was my lunacy. For no possession I owned had ever protected anyone I loved.

Blacks are particularly loyal to funeral homes, and the rumor that a black home has been bought by white interests can wreck the business.

Balance coolness, time to market and total cost of ownership. Really good technology can be adored by users of any age and remains adored even after many years in use.